The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-02-20


in operation under the management Of
that able engineer, Gen. w. 6. Lewis, tc
whose good judgment much of the good
results already achieved is due. The act
allows 325 convicts. The work may .
quire ten years steady work before it il
completed; where private prop cry is ben
efited its owners must pay. This is the
| first recognition of the claius of the cas-
tern section of the State upon the COM
menwealth, in the way of material de.
velopment. It is an offset to the work
done year after year for seventeen years
in the west. 1t will bring about as great
an Improvement in the east as the miles
upon miles of railway have wrought in
the west. The west aCdS terra incognita;
the east is. The great force of convicta
which in a few months will be put at
work there will change the whole state
OF affairs; the unknown will become the
known; the Inaccessible will become the
accessible. To their honor be it said,
that most of the western members were
earnest intheir efforts to secure the pass
age Of this bill, which is now n law. j
NEW 9zssx 50 USE .sEsEaSLssE.-
In the House to-day Mr.. Ewart intro
duced resolution which was set as "a spe-
cial order for next Wednesday night, and
is certain to cause great debate. 1t di-
rects the Attorney General to institute pro-
ceedings at once against nearly all the
railway companies in the State, for their
neglect or disregard of the act of 1871
which requires them to report annually to
the State Treasurer. The resolution sets
forth the fact that the amount of such PEN
alties now reaches $I25,ooo. The sum
the Attorney General shall so sue for and
L. IL 1.N1
fund. Mr.. Ewart had in his hands, and
showed your correspondent, little batch
of reports, perhaps dozen, which were all
he said the treasury had received since
1871.
WHAT TRANsMoNTANE MEMBERS HAVE
DONE.
Mr.. Kope Elias has introduced number
of important measures in the Senate, which
in my next letter will be specifically men
toned, together with those presented by
other transmontane members. Mr.. Elias
also introduced a resolution to adjourn
March ?, which the Senate has adopted.
One of his bills, which has passed, is to
charter the Rabun Gap and Franklin X. r.
This letter gives the principal bills in
troduced by members of the House from
that great and beautiful section so poet
lSd11J yet NGS UGLY DCJOuO lIlS OIuC
Ridge" The work of your Senators will
be considered at length in the next.
Mr.. Patton( formerly reportcd) toincrease
convict force on the w. N. c. r. R., Muir
ply branch. To incorporate the town of
Murphy.
Mr.. Gambler, to levy a tax to build a
court house in his county.
Mr.. Hayes formerly reported) to create
a State system of public schools, in which
the school fund to be collected from polls
and property is to be paid into the State
Treasury and then apportioned among the
several counties according to their school
population. To incorporate the towns of
Charleston and Whittier, Swain county.
To change the dividing line between the
counties of Jackson and Swain. To allow
the commissioners of the various counties
in the 4znd Senatorial district to dispose
ST<iae olpent- Cherokee hands. To allow
hiHScounty TO levy tax to build new jail
or repair the present one.
( fr. Mcclure to charter a railway from
the Georgia line in Clay county to the
Tennessee line in Cherokee county. To
levy special tax in his county to build a
Jail.
Mr.. Altman to levy a special tax in Ma
con.
Mr.. Ewart, to compel railway companies
to keep agents at their regular depots (this
is for the s'beneft" of the Asheville and
Spartanburg Il. r., which refuses to have
a freight agent at Asheville, in order to
evade section 1864 of the code, and force
freight via Charlotte to Hendersonville,
though Asheville is only 2I miles from
Hendersonville.) To prohibit the director
of the State PenitentiarY from supplying
any convicts to any corporation or county !
unless cash deposit for the same has
been made in the State Treasury, to go
into effect June I, 1887. This is intended
to make the Penitentiary selt-sustaining by !
giving the preference in all cases to cor.
porations and counties which will thus re-
imburse the State.
To establish Railroad Commission.
To define lobbying, and make it a fel-
ony.
To prevent railroad attorneys from being |
members of the General Assembly.
To prevent State officers, judges and
of the General Assembly from
using free passes over railroads.
To provide for the drainage of Mud
creek swamp lands.
To prohibit boundary stock law cleo
lions.
To incorporte the Weston Carolina Ed
ucationrl Company.
To provide for the election by the peo-
pie of county commissioners and justices
Of the peace in the counties of the Ninth
District.
To amend the charter of the town of
To ccnfne the sale of spirituous liquors
to incorporated cities and towns. Except
ing distilleries from provisions of act)
To allow attorneys from other States to
practice in courts of this State.
Mr. Gambler, to abolish boundary stock
aw elections N Jackson county. To allow
Jackson county to levy tax to build
court house.
Mr.. Pritchard, to make distinction be-
tween grand and petit larceny. To better
govern the penitentiary. To prohibit the
sale of deadly weapons. To repeal the
present statute against carrying concealed
To construct turnpike in
Madison county. To prohibit gambling.
MI. Turner, to amend sect I3, art. of
he constitution. To restore to the people
he right to elect their commissioners.